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Wide board + short WB skaters truly are the most oppressed minority
every couple days for the last year or so, i would open my skateshop bookmarks hoping on a new "unicorn", filter by width and wheelbase, and close my phone in disgust in that order.
"you want a small wheelbase? ride an 8, bigfoot!" i can hear these screams in ever waking nightmare.
this thread is for the dozens of us (as the industry sees it) to discuss the dozen of options that are left, experiences with said boards/setups, new developments for the cause, etc. most importantly to put our collective foot down in hopes for wheelbase equality.
(8.5 and up, 14.25 and below)
@Pretty_rad makes any size and shape you want but specializes in 9"+ decks with 14"wb. his boards come with 14" wb unless you want something different.
heroin craig questions video city deck is a 9.3"x 31.3" 14.1" wb, Girl couch and love seat decks. but the Chem skate Wb tool opens up the option to skate any brands deck
Chems skate WB tool is a must have is you like riding a smaller wb on bigger boards.
i have a wb tool from chems skate which can bring in the wb with .25" increments. so i buy any board i want now and just redrill the truck holes to be 14" wb or 13.9" wb. also allows me to add a little nose to old schools so i can nollie and nose slide.
Since you are using the .25 increment jig have you noticed any structure type issues with the redrilled roll holes being close to the pre drilled? I want the .25 but debating on getting the bigger one idk.
I had a conversation about this a while back, with these results:
If you drill it in towards the middle, there is no difference as the holes would be under the truck and unless you have some crazy hard landings on the end of the kick (usually the nose, if that was the end drilled in) then it also would not cause any other issues there. Similarly on the tail, the truck baseplate will usually overlap the holes enough to not have much pressure over the old holes, so will not weaken the deck.
The other side of it, drilling it out further (not really relevant in this thread for shorter wheelbases but will say it anyway) could weaken it a bit but usually the truck edge is the point at which the board will break, even it if cracks the top ply only, it still was caused by the flex and the pressure of the truck underneath it, so just the two holes by themselves would not cause too much structural weakness on their own.
It is a bit close when you look at it, but I will take a pic of a board with .25 difference that is double drilled when I can for you to see as well.